... of drawing paper, became the dominant motif. The critic Lawrence Alloway included several of Agnes Martin's compositions in the important exhibition called "Systemic Painting," which he organized at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1966. These works, along with the contributions of her fellow exhibitors, helped to define a kind of painting known as systemic, or modular, art that Alloway perceived as ... the introduction of soft washes of pinks, blues, and yellows, her touch became more painterly. She spread the surface layer of acrylic paint so thinly that light seemed to glow...

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... the City of New York • International Center of Photography • Jewish Museum • Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design • National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Goethe House German Cultural Center The American Museum of the Moving Image The American Museum of the Moving Image is the nation ... ...

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All over the world the modern era is being born that leads to the industrial revolution. In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. The Erie Canal is born, which is the biggest construction project in the western world in the last 4,000 years. It is over 300 miles long, dug entirely ... the slave trade. Auction day was a day that all slaves hated and feared. Furthermore, selling slaves was a two million dollar business. Since cotton started booming the value of slaves skyrocketed. Solomon Northrup, an educated free man from the North who was kidnapped into slave...

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... Press Inc., 1994. "The meeting of the Prophets Matthias and Joseph Smith was one of hundreds of strange religious events that occurred all across the United States from the 1820s through the 1840s" (6). These were the peak years of the market revolution and the Second Great Awakening. During anytime of great change and uncertainty, people who are directly affected can be ... months. "The previous ten years had been an agony for everyone. Two of the Matthews children had died. The family's fall into nomadic poverty was complete, making a mockery of Robert Matthew's earlier transient resp...

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... not very smart. He is a struggling actor (because he is very untalented in the field), and does not have a successful love life because he is a womanizer. Chandler Bing (played by Matthew Perry) is a very funny character who uses comedy as a defense mechanism. He is not very macho, so he is always involved in situations that question his masculinity. He has major ... and attitudes of the Generation X that watches. If it was made obvious that this is the reason for Friends, the public would feel insulted and nothing would get sold, so through the plots of the episodes we get distracted. ...

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... Century) These statistics show how desperate homeless are for jobs and how significant the issue of homelessness is in rural areas and inner cities. A book entitled "The Homeless Problem" by Matthew A. Kraljic states " Alone about $25 million in federal funds will go to dozens of organizations in the Washington region for programs to help chronically homeless people become self-sufficient and ... move into permanent housing."(The Homeless Problem) With homelessness on the rise millionsof dollars each year are spent trying to control this disease running rampid through are cities. With t...

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... He had used Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence by introducing it to the American civil rights movement, while at the same time, bringing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the forefront as the focal point for nonviolence and peace. Despite the achievements that Rustin had accomplished during his career as an activist ... that ended segregation in the public schools. Also seen at this event was the "Give Us The Ballot" Speech given by Dr. King that called for voting rights for African-Americans as well as a message from Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, who would soon turn against Rustin ... i...

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... is "a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal."(King Jr. 408) With the public smoking ban, Mayor Bloomberg is forcing smokers to either quit smoking or get up, go outside, smoke, and then come ... human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality."(King Jr. 407) By placing a smoking ban in public places the mayor is forcing segregation between those who smo...

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... refused to move. When word of Park's arrest broke out, it spread quickly. A boycott of the Montgomery bus company was formed by Martin Luther King Jr. About 90% of the blacks that usually rode the buses joined the boycott and found other means of transportation. The bus company lost a vast ... they were greeted with much of the same. They could barely provide food and clothing for Elvis. However Elvis persevered and came to be known as the King of Rocking roll. Arthur Miller A leading American playwright, Arthur Miller, b. New York City, Oct. 17, 1915, has enriched the Broadway stage fo...

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... . In the 1960's, a gangster by the name of, David Barksdale, created a gang by the name of the Disciple Nation. David Barksdale, Jerome King Shorty Freeman another gang leader in the south side Chicago area and a man by the name of Don Charles Jones created the gang Disciple Nation that consisted ... up. Earl porter's brother by the name of Mike Mayor was found dead after a multi million dollar drug deal had turned for the worst. When King Porter got arrested for a drug trafficking offense in Atlanta Georgia, was the last time any head member has heard of him. In the early 1970 ... Nation...

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... United States Constitution section 242 . March 3, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, several California Highway Patrol cruisers chase Rodney King, a robbery parolee, speeding over 110 miles per hour down the Los Angeles strip. King, an African American, was eventually forced to stop after running through several red lights at intersections. The other two passengers of the car complied with the requests of the police ... to exit the car and were subdued with minor resistance, King refused to exit the car, so a beating was administered by ... a electronic stun gun, holding over 50,000 volt...

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... tells of how he "slept in the garage the night he died, and [he] broke all the goddam windows with [his] fist, just for the hell of it" (39). The death of Allie caused Holden to become very volatile because he didn't know how else to express his grief. From then on, many of Holden's emotions are channeled ... through anger and bitterness rather than the true emotion he is feeling. Later, as Holden is watching Phoebe ride the carousel, he explains that "[he] was damn near bawling, [he] ... ...

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... History that I had no knowledge about before reading the book "1776,"by David McCullough were: 1. King George III was a cruel man. 2. George Washington was a reserved man. Before reading 1776, my knowledge of King George III was pretty slim, so anything read about him was something learned. The King's negative attitude towards the 13 colonies help him and his country gain power is the ... nation. Secondly, is George Washington. With little to no education, as a general, he was a conservative man. Washington liked to study his enemy, and did not make decisions without thinking them throu...

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... was nominated with highlights for having a 82-124 record as a NBA head coach and in his first season with New York, knicks finished second in the Atlantic Division with a 43-39 record. Last, Willis Reed's career was the general manager/vice president of basketball operations, for the New Jersey Nets in 1988-1996, and senior vice president, player development and scouting ... ...

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... and the United States there came many hardships, such as unemployment and high inflation. These hardships produced a restless society. The society then looked for something or someone to blame (Fried, 39). They found someone to blame. Communists. Throughout the country there was a witch hunt known as the Red Scare. A basic idea was formed: Communism was evil. Anyone who participated in such ... ...

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... to his name can have the ability and influence to motivate others to achieve a set of goals. A prime example of a highly respected American is Martin Luther King, Jr. He was respected and honored by so many; he had a goal and carried himself in a way that intrigued his fellow Americans. By using his deserved ... they held no material value, but the ideas and passion behind them made it one of the most impressionable speeches and movements in history. Mr. King used his power to alter and open minds to promote freedom and equality. He was a martyr and even though he is no longer here his ...

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... and wrote for the popular media and film crews accompanied her later field visits. In all, she made 15 field trips during her career. She authored, edited, or collaborated on 39 books and 1,397 other publications, as well as some 43 tapes and films. She received 28 honorary degrees. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 and ... ...

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Charles Brockden Brown He was born in Philadelphia, on January 17, 1771, into an old Quaker family. Brown was the youngest of four sons. Through out his childhood and his life he was most often sick. Being physically weak Brown was very strong in his studies. He went to Friends" Grammar School. There he acquired a ... writing it took a toll on his already bad health. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1809. He died the following year from it on February 22, at the age of 39. Brown's novels, reflecting his upbringing and the ideas of William Godwin, dealt with solutions to moral problems, ...

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... and "Eleanor did a great deal of war work." (Graves 36) She spent days in the Red Cross near the railroad station, making sandwiches and coffee to the soldiers that came through Washington. She also visited wounded soldiers at the hospitals. She would make them food and bring them presents to "cheer them up." (Graves 37) When asked how she found time ... was nominated to run for Vice-President of the United States. FDR gathered with "famous people who came to see him at all hours of the day and night." (Graves 39) One of these persons was Louis Howe, who later became a close friend to t...

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... National Restaurant Association conducted a survey in 1996 that showed more than 62% of all Americans choose smoke-free restaurants over ones that allow smoking. A 1996 Angus Reid poll found that 39% of people would eat at a smoke-free restaurant more often, 46% said they wouldn't change their normal habits, and 16% said they would eat out less often. Some restaurants are ... ...

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... about 34.5 million people. I also found it very interesting that the poverty rate for those living in the suburbs is 8.7%. I also by researching found out that children make up for 39% of the poor and 26% of the total population (Statistics on Poverty (nd.). Retrieved March 28, 2003, from http: //www. Neasc.org/annual-meeting.anlmtg7.htm-12k.) I was really moved ... died. I only thing I had a problem with is that all the people that were talked to unfairly blamed the government, society and particularly New York Mayor Guilliani. Not once did someone through this whole book take part of ...

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... is more common when (1) the victim is male rather than female, (2) the victim is male and the attacker is female, (3) the attacker is outside the "physical prime" ages of 16-39 compared to other ages, (4) the attacker is outside the "prime" age span and the victim is in that age span, compared to the reverse situation, (5) there is a single attacker, and ... ...

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... of the book around the children who live in the South Bronx. For someone my age or younger to go through these horrible everyday occurrences described in the book is something unimaginable for me and most people. Although these kids have been through the roughest of times, their natural innocence is still visible even though their harsh environment has given them depressing ... that light up the sidewalk after someone has been shot down there. Many of them talk about actually seeing shootings take place. After listening to what these kids have been through, it is hard to believe that th...

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... . Chi's approaches his designs with two fundamental tenets, first using design to attract people in the door. Second, the restaurant having an inner beauty, so the customers feel the experience through a course of time. Chi feels all his restaurants have warmth, decorative lighting fixtures often serve "to fill the void, to create a glow, to create warmth."" Chi also emphasizes the importance ... solved by building an independent box within the existing shell, then separating the two with a continuous 9.45-inch air space. Each structure is insulated, bring the overall wall thickness to 3...

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... , the lower-class, which has traditionally been composed of a large percentage of minorities, will be able to compete fairly with white males for educational and employment opportunities. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said that people should be judged "not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character". This statement is true in every aspect of American ... should be living together in harmony. It is only when affirmative action is ended, and a serious effort improve urban schools is begun that the "colorblind" society that Dr. Martin Luther King envisioned can be esta...

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